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Local Council By Elections Thread

Local council by elections happen throughout the country nearly every Thursday. Yet, there is not a thread dedicated to them on this forum. Therefore, I thought I would set one up. All of the preview posts will be directly lifted from Andrew Teale's Britain Elects blog.

May 17th 2018

University and Scotforth Rural on Lancaster City council (2 seats)
Skerton West on Lancaster City council (1 seat)
Leiston on Suffolk Coastal District council (1 seat)

If you take the % gain off the % share you get figures for prior to Thursday's vote of

Tory 39.4% gained 2.9% to 42.3%
Lib Dem 32.2% gained 7.3% up to 39.5%

how can the Tories have gained this from Lib Dem ?

Surely the Tories held it before with 39.4% of the votes to the Lib Dems 32.2%

am I missing something here ?

It is because usually when there is a full set of elections three seats are available and the top three candidates win. The seat the Lib Dems were defending was the last of the winning candidates last time around (if that makes sense). Also, the cumulative Tory vote was higher to begin with.

Local council by elections happen throughout the country nearly every Thursday. Yet, there is not a thread dedicated to them on this forum. Therefore, I thought I would set one up. All of the preview posts will be directly lifted from Andrew Teale's Britain Elects blog.

May 17th 2018

University and Scotforth Rural on Lancaster City council (2 seats)
Skerton West on Lancaster City council (1 seat)
Leiston on Suffolk Coastal District council (1 seat)